There are two ways of calling the Ceilidh system. Ceilidh may be used to
support several courses in your department. You can either enter the
system at a general level, and then choose the particular course you are
studying, or you can enter directly into the particular course you are
interested in.

To enter the system at the general level, the appropriate command (which should
have been set up by your computer systems administrator) is

xceilidh (Xwindows version --- recommended)

or

ceilidh (text based version)

Upon issuing the command xceilidh (or ceilidh) you will be greeted with the
menu shown in figure .

Note: Example menus
are shown in this document. Menus seen in practice may vary slightly from
those shown, since the actual menu you are offered reflects only those
facilities available at the time.

xceilidh is the X-Windows based version which you should use as it is easier and
more intuitive. However, the text based version ceilidh does have a few more
features. These are not that important though. I will list features of both.
ceilidh uses abbreviations for commands. xceilidh has buttons to press

This is the "system" level of Ceilidh and represents a department wide view of
the system.

The commands which are available at this point are as follows.

lc

(text ceilidh only) in X the courses available appear on main
window.This command tells you which courses are available and supported by
the Ceilidh system, their full title and their abbreviation.

vp

(text ceilidh only)
If you are interested, you can use the vp command to view various
papers describing the workings of the Ceilidh system. A typical
response to this command would be
The stored papers are:

which lists a selection of the available papers. If you reply with
the short name of the paper (the first word on the line), the paper
will be shown on the screen a page at a time through a paging command
such as "more". Diagrams may not appear correctly.

It is possible to print a given paper which looks interesting using
the pp command. Some papers containing diagrams may not view or
print nicely on devices without appropriate facilities.

h

(Help button)
The h command offers a little more information on the significance
of the different commands available to you in the Ceilidh system.
This command is available at various points when you are using
Ceilidh, and should give help relevant at the time.

q

(Exit button)
This is the "quit" command to leave the Ceilidh system, and to
return to your ordinary UNIX shell.

For courses with student registers, the following commands are also
available

fs

(Find Student Button)
To find details about any student registered on any of the courses
supported by the system.

ft

(Find Tutor)
To find details of the tutees of a specified tutor.

See below for discussion of the clp and co commands, both of which occur at many
places in Ceilidh.

In general you will wish to move fairly soon to work on a specific course
which you are studying. A particular course is entered using the sc (select
course) command highlighting c course in window or by typing for example

sc

followed by return to enter the course "c" in text based version. (You
must use lower case/upper case (small and capital) letters exactly as
requested. If the given name is not a valid course, all available course names
will be listed and a valid one should be selected.)